1967 • Television • The Avengers
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Series: The Avengers
Original release / air date: 27 September 1967
Runtime: 51 minutes
Season: 5
Episode: 17
Country / region: United Kingdom
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: ITV
Production company / studio: ABC Television; Associated British Productions; ABC Television Films
Artificial character(s): Cybernaut
Performer(s): Rocky Taylor
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot
Features:
DestructionMalfunctionMechanicalProgrammingShutdown

Overview

Paul Beresford revives his brother's Cybernaut technology and forces kidnapped scientists to help him take revenge on Steed and Emma Peel.

ASFR Content

A surviving/upgraded Cybernaut is programmed to identify victims from their cardiograms. Beresford's plan also uses a control device capable of overriding a person's movements. In the climax the control hardware is accidentally attached to a Cybernaut, conflicting commands send the machine berserk, and it kills Beresford before being disabled.

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A Cybernaut is reprogrammed to hunt by cardiogram

Benson programs the assassin with a victim's cardiogram so the robot can locate and kill its target without relying on the earlier radio-transmitter method.

Character(s): Cybernaut
Features:
MechanicalProgramming
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Conflicting control signals send the Cybernaut berserk

A remote-control device intended for Steed is placed on the Cybernaut instead. The conflicting commands destabilise the robot and it rampages through the laboratory.

Character(s): Cybernaut
Features:
MalfunctionProgramming
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

The Cybernaut kills Beresford and is disabled

The malfunctioning Cybernaut crushes Beresford during the final struggle before Emma destroys the control system and the machine becomes inert.

Character(s): Cybernaut
Features:
DestructionShutdown

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